The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging. In this episode, Joey Taylor and Sam Pressler speak with Kate Hanisian.

Kate Hanisian is a strategist and social change advocate that is deeply driven by the question: How might we design a more connected, sustainable, and inclusive world? She co-founded Design Impact, a non-profit social innovation firm in 2009, building a small idea into a successful nonprofit that addresses complex social challenges through the lenses of innovation, equity, and leadership. She now serves as the Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer within the YMCA of Greater Cincinnati and is also the lead facilitator of the YMCA North American Network, where she works with the leaders of the largest YMCAs in the US, Mexico, and Canada.

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Works Referenced in this podcast:

• Sam’s piece about the YMCA on Connective Tissue
• The Membership: A Wendell Berry Podcast
• Enhancing Social Capital and Sense of Belonging; A Collaboration between the YMCA of Greater Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Mayerson Child Well-Being Initiative (MCWI)
• Wellness Check by Andrea Gibson

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change.

Joey Taylor & Sam Pressler speak with Pete Davis about Join or Die, which he directed with Rebecca Davis.

• The Lost Prophets Podcast
• Pete's Interview with Sam
• Dedicated by Pete Davis
• Bowling Alone by Putnam
• The Upswing by Putnam
• Sum of Us by McGhee
• Against Everyone with Conner Habib Podcast
• Weird Studies Podcast
• Lindy Effect - Nicholas Nassim Taleb
• The Maintainers
• Quest for Community by Nisbet
• February 2nd, 1968 by Wendell Berry
• Small is Beautiful by Schumacher
• The Creation of the American Republic by Wood
• Our Divided Political Heart by Dionne
• Triplets of Evil Speech by King
• Boy in the Bubble by Paul Simon
• Jane Macelevy, Eddie Glaude, Frederick Law Olmsted, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Jane Jacobs, Buckminster Fuller, Ralph Nader, Paul Goodman, Ella Baker, Ivan Illich, Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, Marshal McLuhan, Tony Judt, Thomas Merton, Michael Lind, Frank Capra, Elias Krim, Roberto Unger, Alexis De Tocqueville, Priya Parker

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging. In this episode, Joey Taylor and Sam Pressler speak with Dr. Ian Marcus Corbin about loneliness as a spiritual and material crisis, agency, world making, and Restoring the Common Good.

Ian Marcus Corbin is a philosopher in Cambridge, MA, serving on the faculties of Neurology and Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, where he co-directs the Human Network Initiative, and is a Senior Fellow at the think tank Capita. He has a book on belonging forthcoming.

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Works Referenced in this podcast:

• Radical Hope by Jonathon Lear
• Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism boy Anne Case and Angus Deaton
• The Loneliest Crowd by Ian Marcus Corbin
• We Were Wrong About What Happened to America in 2020 by Eric Klinenberg
• Alienated America by Timothy Carney
• How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century by Hahrie Han
• George W Bush’s Ownership Society
• Why is it So Expensive to Build Stuff in America on Plain English Podcast with Derek Thompson
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
• The Left Needs a Spiritual Renaissance. So Does America. By Ian Marcus Corbin and Senator Chris Murphy
• REMARKS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MARCH 18, 1968 by Robert F. Kennedy
• Read about the Saguaro Seminars in this book by Robert Putnam - Better Together: Restoring the American Community
• Read about Rawlsian Bracketing here - Neutered by Neutrality: The Abiding Influence of John Rawls, Part Two by Randall Smith
• “A House Called Tomorrow” by Alberto Ríos

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change.